A New American Labor Movement

A New American Labor Movement
Author: William E. Scheuerman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1438485506

The American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from the bargaining table to the streets. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheuerman analyzes how the decline of unions and the emergence of these new direct-action movements are reshaping the American labor movement. Tens of thousands of exploited workers—from farm laborers and gig drivers to freelance artists and restaurant workers—have taken to the streets in a collective attempt to attain a living wage and decent working conditions, with or without the help of unions. This new worker militancy, expressed through mass demonstrations, strikes, sit-ins, political action, and similar activities, has already achieved much success and offers models for workers to exercise their power in the twenty-first century. Finally, Scheuerman notes, many of the strategies of the new direct-action groups share features with the sectoral bargaining model that dominates the European labor movement, suggesting that sectoral bargaining may become the foundation of a new American labor movement.

Labor Problems

Labor Problems
Author: Edgar Stevenson Furniss
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
Total Pages: 636
Release: 1925
Genre: Arbitration
ISBN:

The Labor Movement

The Labor Movement
Author: George Edwin McNeill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 724
Release: 1892
Genre: Labor laws and legislation
ISBN:

History of the Labor Movement in the United States

History of the Labor Movement in the United States
Author: Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1988
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780717806522

Labor and the Red Scare; Seattle and Winnipeg general strikes; Boston telephone and police strikes; Streetcar strikes in Chicago, Denver, Knoxville, Kansas City; strikes in clothing, textile, coal and steel; The open-shop drive; Strikes and Black-white relationships; the AFL and the Black worker; the IWW; Communist Party founded; Political action 1918-1920.

Who Rules America Now?

Who Rules America Now?
Author: G. William Domhoff
Publisher: Touchstone
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1986
Genre: History
ISBN:

The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.